Upcoming American Drama Charm City Kings
First of all, Sony Pictures Classics is a company that distributes, produces and acquires specialty films such as documentaries, independent films, and art films. They do all of this in the United States and even internationally. As such, they are distributing Charm City Kings while the producers of the film are Overbrook Entertainment, run by Will Smith, James Lassiter, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Charm City Kings is unique in that it is a film adaption of the documentary 12 O’Clock Boys. It is directed by Angel Manuel Soto, from a screenplay by Sherman Payne, from a story by Kirk Sullivan, Chris Boyd, and Barry Jenkins. The movie stars Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Meek Mill, Will Catlett, Teyonah Parris, Donielle Tremaine Hansley, and Kezii Curtis.
Charm City Kings tells the story of a young man called Mouse and his attempts to fit in. Mouse (Jahi Di’Allo Winston) desperately wants to join Baltimore’s infamous Midnight Clique, a fearless group of dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax (Meek Mill), takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence. Charrm City Kings will make its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2020. It is scheduled to be released everywhere else on April 10, 2020, by Sony Pictures Classics.